The bride wore white, the happy couple exchanged vows and the newly-weds emerged from the chapel to be showered with confetti.

But there was one unusual thing about the wedding in a chapel in central London. Louisa Hodkin and Alessandro Calcioli were the first couple officially to tie the knot in a Church of Scientology in Britain.

The pair, both 25, had won a legal battle at the Supreme Court to prove that the chapel constituted a legitimate âplace of meeting for religious worshipâ.